by Kris W.B. Scheerlinck, Ph.D., Architect/Urban Designer

April 5, 2016April 5, 2016

European Prize Manuel de Solà- Morales 2017

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Every two years, the Manuel de Solà-Morales European Prize will recognize the best university research in the field of urbanism carried out by a student granted a PhD. Candidates can be anyone studying at a European University whose research for their doctoral thesis is grounded in urbanism. The thesis should be written in a European language and should be presented between January 1st 2012 and 31st December 2015. It should also have obtained the maximum mark according to the application procedure on www.lub.upc.edu/msmprize. The award honours the memory of Professor of Urbanism, and architect, Manuel de Solà-Morales Rubio (1939-2012) who understood his subject as a creative and intellectual activity, committed to improving cities through what he called “persistent research”.

Jury:

Dr. Jean Louis Cohen, Architect, Professor of The History of Architecture and a specialist in Urbanism at New York University of Fine Arts and the Collège de France in Paris, who will act as president.